So we laid the concrete slab in another long day and then Craig got cracking on the framing for the 3 rooms. The space above the bathroom will be a storage/children's sleeping area if friends come. A changefrom the originalplan of just having it as a roof space; we're trying to squeeze every useable m3 out of the house!
Almost completed framing showing the full height pantry and a funky 'bobble' glass window we got given as a bit of a feature. I'm beginning to love the pastel colours of the 1960's lead paints!
The timetable was progressing well until Greg heard of a farm cottage available for salvaging with only a week left. WE arrived and teh tin roof had gone but we took the roof rafters down in a day and had 'em stacked away; just what we needed for the extra timber Greg required for the window frames.
Next day we stripped 3 rooms of the wall sarkign boards. It appeared the whole house was Southern Beech; a rare find indeed! We were optimistic about the floor T&G too but we we'd cut out and lifted a section the boards were riddled with borer holes so no luck there. We'll go have a final nose around after the digger has pulled the walls over so we might grab a few straight stubs and even a few weatherboards. It took Greg a day and a half to process the rafter 4x2's and both of us day to clean up the sarking. Time consuming but worth it. That'll look great on one of our ceilings!
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